12.18.2015

In Memory and Homage to Brother/Classmate Friend John "Jack" Dawkins - A Lincoln Lion who has joined the Ancestor/Angels

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Hello All:

By
Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Hello
All:

Twenty
days ago, a dear friend made his transition to Ancestor/Angel:
John "Jack" Dawkins. I've been trying to deal
with it ever since. I know his family is likewise having a
tough time dealing with the loss of this terrific brother - and I
shouldn't say "loss" - because in spirit, nothing is ever
lost from us, we always have the essence and the wonderful memories
with us, no matter what.

The following link to his services, which take place Sunday, December
20, was sent to me from his widow, Olga:

"The link to see the memorial service of John M. Dawkins live on Sunday, December 20 at 4pm is the church web site:

Go
there and click livestream. The service will also be "archived" and be
available at that same site for several months. Thank you."

John
had so many life long Lincoln friends - we will all miss him a great
deal. Please share this link with other classmates. And let's all hold
his family in prayer as they go through this painful rite of passage.

Please share with the rest of the groupii.

Hail! Hail! Lincoln

Rather than having a pity party, I thought I'd share some of the emails I received from Jack over the year - some are funny; others thought provoking, others very informative - each gives you a clue to the depths of this wonderful brother/friend.

1) This
first one is actually one of the last emails I received from him:
November 19, 2015

Sent
from my iPhone Subject:Fwd:
The Darwin’s Are Out!!!!

For
any of you needing reassurance about human nature …

The
Darwin’s Are Out!!!!

Yes,
it's that magical time of year when the Darwin Awards are bestowed,
honoring the "least evolved" among us .

Here
Is The Glorious Winner:

1.
When his .38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim
during a hold-up in Long Beach , California would-be robber James
Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the
barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

And
Now, The Honorable Mentions:

2.
The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting
machine and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his
insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of
its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also
lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

3.
A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car
during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a
woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4.
After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver
found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting
from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his
incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered
everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers
to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very
excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't
discovered for 3 days.

5.
An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head
wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received
the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see
how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6..
A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the
counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer,
the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register,
which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the
clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount
of cash he got from the drawer... $15. [If
someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime
committed?]

7.
Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that
he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab
some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over
his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the
would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor
store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on
videotape.

8.
As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man
grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the
woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher.
Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in
the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of
the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he
replied, Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse
from."

9.
The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a
Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and
demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't
open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered
onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast...
The frustrated gunman walked away. [*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]

10.
When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a
Seattle street by sucking on a hose, he got much more than he
bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man
curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police
spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline, but
he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by
mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying
that it was the best laugh he'd ever had and the perp had been
punished enough!

In
the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with friends
and family.... unless of course one of these individuals by chance is
a distant relative or long lost friend. In that case, be glad they
are distant and hope they remain lost.

*****Remember*****

They
walk among us; they can reproduce. And they can actually vote!!!! Be
on guard!!!!!!

3) I
received this Joke Of The Day in August 2015. I've heard Joel Osteen
use it as a joke several times as well.

A
man on his Harley was riding along a California beach
when suddenly the sky clouded above his head, and in a booming
voice, God said, 'Because you have tried to be faithful to me in
all ways, I will grant youone wish.'

The
biker pulled over and said, 'Build a bridge to Hawaii so I
can ride over anytime I want.'

God
replied, 'Your request is materialistic.Think of the enormous
challenges for that kind of undertaking;

the supports
required reaching the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete and
steel it would take. I can do it,

but it is hard for me to
justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time
and think of something

that might possibly be of more help to
mankind.'

The
biker thought about it for a long time.

Finally,
he said, 'God, I wish that I, and all men, could understand women.
I want to know how she feels

inside, what she's thinking when she
gives me the silent treatment, why she cries, what she means when

she says nothing's wrong, why she snaps and complains when I
try to help, and how I can make a woman

truly happy.'

God
replied: "You want two lanes or four on that bridge?"

4) Jack was always ahead of his time in spotting innovative ideas and
concepts - check this out!

23. What this country needs aremore unemployed politicians--Edward Langley,Artist (1928-1995)

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, isstrong enough to take everythingyou have. -- Thomas Jefferson

25. We hang the petty thieves andappoint the great ones to publicoffice. -- Aesop

FI VE BEST SENTENCES

1. You cannot legislate the poor intoprosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives withoutworking for, another person mustwork for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give toanybody anything that thegovernment does not first takefrom somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth bydividing it.

5. When half of the people get theidea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is thebeginning of the end of any nation!

Can you think of a reason for not sharing this?Neither could I.

ONE LAST ONE:

Life's
Oxymorons

Nothing is
worse than that moment during an argument when you realize
you're wrong.

I
totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was
younger.

How
are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

Was
learning cursive really necessary?

Obituaries
would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

Bad
decisions make good stories.

I
disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or
Saturday night

more
kisses begin with Miller Light than Kay.

I
have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and
hunger.

How
many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just
nod and smile

because
you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?

I
love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to
prevent

a
driver from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers
and sisters!

Shirts
get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and
you can

wear
them forever.

The
first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in
1874 and the first

helmet
was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to
realize

that
their brain is also important.

I PROMISE - THIS IS MY LAST, LAST, LAST JACK DAWKINS FOR THIS BLOG!!

ARAPROSDOKIANS are figures of speech in which
the latter part of a sentence is often unexpected.

For
example:

1. Where there's a will, I want to be
in it.

2. Since light travels faster than
sound, some people appear bright until you hear them
speak.

3. If I agreed with you, we'd both be
wrong.

4. War does not determine who is
right - only who is
left.

5 Knowledge is knowing a
tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit
salad.

6. They begin the evening news
with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it
isn't.

7. To steal ideas from someone
is plagiarism. To steal from many is called
research.

8. In filling in an application, where
it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put
'DOCTOR.'

9. I didn't say it was your
fault, I said I was blaming
you.

10. Women will never be equal to
men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer
gut, and still think they look
sexy.

11. Behind every successful man
is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually
another woman.

12. A clear conscience is the
sign of a bad memory.

13. I used to be
indecisive. Now I'm not so
sure.

14. Nostalgia isn't
what it used to be. Nor is there any future in
it.

15. Change is inevitable, except
from a vending machine.

16. Going to church doesn't make
you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a
car.

Finally:

I'm supposed to respect my elders, but
it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

And my
personal
favorite:

"I am
not arguing with you! I am explaining why you are
wrong!!

(If you're not bent over with laughter, there is something seriously wrong with your funny bone)

Thanks so much Jack Dawkins for brightening so many, many dark days with that wonderful humor of yours - That's why they called you to the Ancestor/Angels - things were obviously getting a little dull up there.

NOTE TO LU RABBLE:

I
have to admit, it took me a long time to decide which ones to select.
In 2015 alone, I received nearly 550 emails from Jack Dawkins.
Throughout the next year, from time to time, when I'm having a Jack
Dawkins flashback, I'll pull up one of his emails and interject it into
something I'm writing, just to brighten the day - so just be on the look
out for them - his spirit will never die. His wit, wisdom will always
be with us

Thanks for taking this little walk down memory lane with me - And may all your memories of Jack Dawkins be filled with the treasures he shared so lovingly with us all.My condolences to Olga and the girls, his family and all of us from Lincoln University who had the privilege and pleasure of attending school with him and continuing to call him friend.Peace Be Unto HimStay Blessed &ECLECTICALLY BLACKGloria